Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [pron] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 2 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 3 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 4 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 5 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 7 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 8 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |